Refrigerating-receptacle



(No Model.)

F. W. MERRILL. REFRIGERATING REGBPTAGLE.

No. 568,579. Patented Sept. 29, 1896.

UNITED STATES FRANK IV. MERRILL, OF DEERING, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO THE E.T. BUR- ROWES COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

REFRIGERATlNG-RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,579, datedSeptember 29, 1896.

Application filed April 2, 1896. Serial No. 585 ,958. (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. MERRILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Deering, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRefrigerating-Recepta- I ceptacles, and it is embodied in the construc-The invention is primarily intended for use in connection with what areknown as ice-cream refrigerators, and it comprises a constructionwhereby the can or holding-receptacle may be firmly supported andconveniently removed from the box or casing.

In the drawings, wherein like letters of reference designatecorresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a can. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a can and jacket, and Fig. 3is a detail view of the removing-ring.

In the drawings, A designates a perforated jacket having thecentering-ring B at its top. This jacket is adapted to be inserted inany convenient form of refrigerating-receptacle.

O designates the can, which is fashioned to fit within the jacket andhas adjacent to its upper edge the divided supporting flange or flangesD D of a width sufficient to project over the edge of the jacket, whichlatter thereby serves as a support for the can. The flanges D extend butpart way around the can on opposite sides, and the spaces between theiradjacent ends form what may be properly termed grooves or ways,designated atd and located diametrically opposite each other.

E designates the lifting-rin g, fitting closely about the can andnormally resting with its upper edge against the flanges D D. Ondiametrically opposite sides of the ring E are secured the handles H,the same consisting of the vertical sections f, which extend from thering upward above the plane thereof, and the angle or lifting sectionsf, which are carried out substantially horizontal to points above andbeyond the j aoket. The vertical portions of the handles extend throughthe grooves 01 to points above the flanges, by which means the flangesare permitted to rest entirely on the jacket without interference by thehandles.

By the construction above described it will be seen that the can isevenly supported and can be readily lifted from the jacket.

hile a particular form of handle has been shown and described, it is tobe understood that the same may be varied or changed in many respectswithout departing from the nature of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is- 4 The combination with separatedcan, having projections thereon, of a lifting-ring surrounding the canand resting against the projections, handles on the ring extendingupwardly between and beyond the projections, and a support on which theprojections rest, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in .presence of two witnesses.

' FRANK W. MERRILL.

IVitnesses:

H. W. ROBINSON, E. A. STERLING.

